Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-01
FRUIT-GR0WING.
success Achieved, and the Profits from
Eruit-GrowiDg of Various Kinds.


Eruit-Growing of Various Kinds.
Small frllit-growine has been successfully
engaged in in this district, and it is espe-
cialiy ADAPTED to people of small means.
Five TO ten acres of land is all that can be
managed to advantage. There are MANY
families now here who make good livines
from five acres of Strawberries, blackberries
or rasplerries. With Judgment in the
selection of soils and with skill and in
dustry in cultivation and marketing. from
5000 70 Si00 worth of berries per acre can
he relied upon. The returns from this
branch of horticulture can be realized much
sooner than from tree fruits.
EARLY FRUIT RAISING.
Euut-growing dates back to the early
days Of the American occupation. Almost
the first thing done by the settler was to
plant out fruit trees and vines. All varie-
ties of fruit trees were planted, and with
the most satisfactory results. Apples of
good size and flavor are crown even in the
valleys but on the foothills; to an altitude
Of 5000 feet, the best apples are grown.
Every variety Of peach is grown on the
the slopes of the foothills. and they cannot
be excelled in any county for the quantity
and quality of the yield. The same NAV
be said of the production Of pears, plums,
prunes, cherries, aprieots and nectarines.
All these are
GROWN WITH THE GREATEST SUCCESS AND
PECUNIARY PROFIT
In the Gait district, and the orchard pro-
ducts are in demand in all the vast country
from the eastern base of the Sierra Ne
vadas to the Atlantic ocean. The sixty
million people of the East are buying and
eating our fruits, and the seventy millions
of the next census will demand them. and
the ninety millions of the next succeeding
census will make still further demand.
and so on till the population OF the coun-
tury demands more than this coast can
produce.
THE CHoICER PRODUCTS.
1t should be borne in mind that, so far
as has been demonstrated, there is no other
portion of the United States which can
produce good wines, raisins, olives, olive
oil, figs, prunes, oranges, lemons or lines.
Florida has produced citrus fruits to a
considerable extent but the winters there
seem to be such as to make the production
uncertain and the business hazardous. OF
all these articles we are large importers:
we consume much more of them than we
produce, and sound economy demands that
we produce all that we consume, at least.
With these facts in view, there seems no
reason to fear lack of markets for all of
those products that all the home-seekers
who may come here for the next fiftv wears
can produce.
THE PRICES OF LAND.
In this district are remarkably low, consid-
ering the fertility of thes soil, the abundance
of timber and water, the pleasure and profit
of the winterless climate, the means of
transportation and the profit which can be
made from the land Relatively these
lands are as cheap or cheaper than in other
lands the prices range from $40 to $50 per
acre, and when put out to vegetables, small
fruits, orchards or vineyards these lands
will
PAY THE PURCHASE PRICE IN ONE YEAR.
The lands of the brown soils can be had
from $40 to $50 per acre, and are exceed
ingly cheap at those figures. On the foot
hill slopes and in the foothill valleys land
Is much cheaper. 1t IS fact rs true as
holy writ that the best land is the
cheapest at any price. Ten acres of first
class land is worth more than 100 acres of
third class land Buy the best whenever
it is to be had, regardless of locality, but
be sure that there are markets and trans
portation.
FINE VINEYARD LANDS.
There is no better vineyard land than
that of the Gait district. 1t is now more
than third of a century since the first
vineyards were planted, and through all
that time these old vineyards have grown
and produced great crops of grapes. The
first vines were the Mission variety and
after 80 years they are still to be seen, as
strong, vigorous and prolific as ever. Since
the American occupation in l847-S there
have been number of vineyards of the
better varieties of grapes set out on all the
different varieties of soil in this district